Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

Who We Are Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 400+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, our annual revenue is in the hundreds of millions USD and millions use our browser on Mac , Windows , iOS , and Android , our search engine , and the DuckDuckGo subscription . We also offer private, useful, and optional AI, including Duck.ai , which lets you chat privately with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AIs, all in one place. Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins every

What the role involves

• Implementing AI-assisted answers and integrating them into our Search product while maintaining our privacy-first approach
• Delivering improvements to Duck.ai to help us make it a competitive AI chat alternative for both free and paying users
• Implementing sophisticated data processing pipelines that maintain search relevancy
• 7+ years of professional experience, primarily focused on backend systems that power consumer-facing products
• Product acumen to reason about technical tradeoffs in terms of user impact
• Familiarity with AI agent tooling: evaluation frameworks, RAG pipelines and prompt engineering

Details

• Full-time
• Worldwide
• Backend